House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked.

How will it end?

His answer wasn't one furloughed Fed workers wanted to hear.

We have no idea.

He said that's up to the Dems, but...

The Democrats appear perfectly happy to keep the political theater going while real people suffer.

So the government is shut down, but there's a whole lot of things going on.

Trump keeps moving, like a bulldozer

taking down everything in his path. Welcome to Red Meat, a collection of stories from Odyssey

stations across the country. The place where we're not afraid to dig in. The first thing we're

going to serve up is this. While the Democrats argue and the government is at a perceived standstill, the Trump

administration secretly authorized the CIA to conduct covert action in Venezuela. The authorization

is the latest step in the Trump administration's intensifying pressure campaign against Venezuela.

The goal is to drive authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro out of power. Here's the latest.

The government's not doing their part.

Nope, nope, nope, they're still shut down.

Day 16.

Is Trump derangement syndrome on its way out?

You know with this piece in the Middle East, it is a big deal.

And finally, even some Democrats had to admit that, you know, Trump got it done.

Yeah, I don't know, you can be a Nazi, and you bring peace to the Middle East, and you put

accords into effect, and you're the number one ally of Israel.

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